Iraq Tells Media to Toe the Line

[muriel_volestrangler]

From Friday, but I can't find a mention of it on DU.

It said all media organizations operating in Iraq should "differentiate between the innocent Fallouja residents who are not targeted by military operations and terrorist groups that infiltrated the city and held its people hostage under the pretext of resistance and jihad." Comment: why, when the troops don't seem to treat them differently?

It said news organizations should "guide correspondents in Fallouja … not to promote unrealistic positions or project nationalist tags on terrorist gangs of criminals and killers."

It also asked media to "set aside space in your news coverage to make the position of the Iraqi government, which expresses the aspirations of most Iraqis, clear."

"We hope you comply … otherwise we regret we will be forced to take all the legal measures to guarantee higher national interests," the statement said. It did not elaborate.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-media12nov12,1,1009792.story?coll=la-news-a_section

Don't you just love a free press? It's just what Iraq needs, with an election coming up and everything ...

[Cocoa]

1. this is just temporary

soon the Iraqi media will learn to toe the government line without being told by the government. Brokaw and Jennings are going to lead a seminar on it.

[Randypiper]

2. kick